Swords of Heaven was a strategy-infused hack-and-slash title in development at Afkar Media for over a year and a half before ultimately being cancelled in 2005-2007. The project aimed to transport players back to the 7th-century Arabian Peninsula, placing them in the boots of a formidable Arab warrior leading his…
Dead to Rights: Double Tap [PS2] – Cancelled
Dead to Rights: Double Tap was supposed to be the follow-up to Dead to Rights: Reckoning. Unfortunately, the game didn’t progress far into development aside from a few concept artworks. According to Project Lead Tim Jones, the game would have used the Guncon capabilities on the PS2 to introduce players…
Project Flame [PC] – Cancelled
Project Flame was a cancelled 2D run-and-gun game that began development in 2008, originally conceived as a Flash-based title with plans to expand onto PC, iOS, Android, and even consoles (Xbox 360 Arcade). Spearheaded by a Syrian developer based in the UAE alongside a small team of artists and programmers,…
Barbarian/Fuzzy Kittens [PS1] – Early Concept
The Mark of Kri is a stylish and satisfying hack-and-slash title that debuted on the PlayStation 2 before being ported to the PlayStation 4 years later. It made full use of the right analogue stick to streamline combat, delivering a truly revolutionary control system for its time. The game is…
Highway Hunter [PS2/Xbox] – Cancelled
Terminal Reality and Midway Games once attempted to revive the vehicular combat genre through their open-world experiment, Roadkill. The game ultimately failed to make an impact, but its original pitch turned out to be far more ambitious. Much of the planned content never made it into the final version, and…